The Drumright baseball Tornadoes entered into last week at 6-4, but lost three out of four games. They opened the week playing Carney, who we used to beat pretty easy. We lost 11-7. It appears that Carney has gotten way bigger and way faster.
We had four errors in the first and were down 4-0. With all the errors it could have ben worse. We had seven errors for the game. We were down 6-0 going into the bottom of the third, but got three runs. Brady Osborne singled, Conrad Reed walked, Sammy Blackburn Singled in Osborne, Carson Mattox walked, Garrett Wright doubled in Reed and Blackburn, but the next two batters struck out. It was strange, the starting Carney pitchers would get in a jam, then a bigger, better pitcher would finally get them out of the jam. This happened twice.
Going into the top of the seventh, the Tornadoes were only down 9-7 — make a defensive stand and we’ve got a chance to win, but we couldn’t make the stand and we lost 117.
Four Tornado batters went to bat, Cody Gregory got a single for the only hit. Gavin Howell struck out one batter. Osborne are in and struck out 12 Carney batters and Paul Welch struck out three batters in one inning.
Sammy Blackburn was 2-4 with 3 RBs, Carsen Maddox was 2-3 with1 RBI, Garrett Wright was 1-4 with 3 RBIs, Osborne was 2-3, Conrad Reed was 1-1, Cody Gregory was 1-2, Jagger Willing was 1-4.
Defensive plays were made by Reed, Austin Tull at first, Blackburn at second, and Jagger Willing at short. But seven errors, six walks and two hit batsmen is hard to overcome.
The next night at Drumright, we played Depew, who seems to have the best games against us, over the years. This wasn’t any different as we lost at home - getting run ruled 17-6, we stranded eight batters.
Carson Mattox was 2-2 with 2 RBIs, Sammy Blackburn was 2-3 with 2 RBIs, Lincoln Fisher struck out two. Others pitching were Austin Tull and Keagan Ward. Ward had 2 RBIs on a hit. Conrad Reed was 1-3 with 1 RBI, Cody Gregory was 1-3.
There wasn’t much defense. Two days later, the Tornadoes played Depew again. This time at the Conference 7 Tournament at Davenport. Drumright was the No. 1 seed and got a bye and Depew beat Olive, so we played Depew again.
This time we won 7-6. In the bottom of the seventh, it was tied 6-6. Keagan Ward singled and Conrad Reed singled to score Ward. Reed was 3-4 with the winning RBI. We actually were down 6-3 going into the bottom of the fifth. In the bottom of the sixth, trailing 5-4, Reed singled, Mattox hit a ground-rule double, scoring Howdy Wright who was running for Reed, Willing walked, as did Cody Gregory, scoring Howdy Wright. Garret Wright singled, scoring Mattox. Jagger Willing pitched six innings, striking out four. Mattox pitched the top of the seventh, striking out one and had help Fromm Brady Osborne at second, and Blackburn at short.
There were several controversial plays, especially when Keagan Ward was hit in the helmet and the umpire called a strike. That was a new one on me. Actually, Ward was hit three times. I don’t think it was dirty on Depew’s part. Their pitcher, Carson Kinney, had a curve ball that broke quite a ways.
Making defensive plays were Blackburn, Osborne, Garret Wright in left, Willing at pitcher, Mattox at second, Reed at catcher, Fisher in right. Hitting were Reed who was 3-4 with 1 RBI, Garret Wright was also 3-4 with 1 RBI, Cod Gregory had an RBI, Keagan Ward was 1-2 Lincoln Fisher was 1-3, Willing was 2-4 and Osborne 1-4.
It was a big win because Depew has seemed to be in our head.
In the finals we played Davenport. We lost 14-1. We had beat them earlier 9-1, but Brody Robinson didn’t play in it.
Brody is our girls softball coach, Leslie Robinson’s son. He was 2-4 with 1 RBI, had a sacrifice fly for the RBI. He didn’t play the first time, but we will take that win anyway.
We only got two hits by Osborne an Garrett Wright, but we had six errors and Davenport only had one.
Good defensive plays were made by Cody Gregory at first, Keagan Ward at third, Osborne, Mattox, who tagged a base runner who was asleep at second — Jagger Willing making a catch about one inch from the ground.
We don’t seem to be very consistent right now.
The Tornadoes will play at the Mounds Tournament, Thursday through Saturday. Coaches are, Hunter Kirby, B. J. Osborne, Terry attic, Jason bray was first base coach against Davenport.
Davenport in an earlier game, beat No. 2 Cashion in Class 2A, 5-4.
The Varsity Girls were run-ruled by Kellyville, but came back to run-rule Mounds at Kellyville. They will play here against Wellston. They will play Davenport at Davenport April 13.
Unfortunately, Olive is not playing for the rest of the season. The Wellston game is April 9. The first game against Depew we struggled bad finding the plate.